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Join mathematicians @112199177160481189201, @107135522210834007871, @103069458643902853500, @110464871801965858778, and @103495840494264016490 as they talk with @111790801286012681940 about their favorite math gifs and ideas and what it's like to be a mathematician. What is it like to be a mathematician? Is there a largest number? Why is this Numberphile video controversial? http://www.numberphile.com/videos/analytical_continuation1.html Here is your chance to ask us!
@112199177160481189201 is an advanced graduate student at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
@107135522210834007871 is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
@110464871801965858778 is a LANCS lecturer at the Cardiff University School of Mathematics in Operational Research in Cardiff, Wales, UK.
@103069458643902853500 is a graduate student in mathematics at the University of West Florida in FL, USA.
@103495840494264016490 is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Roger Williams University in RI, USA.
The Hangout will be hosted by @111790801286012681940, creative director for EyeWire, founder of the TEDx Music Project, and international speaker who is obsessed with how the human mind works.

Can you believe it! The +Science on Google+ community is approaching 200k members! We'll have reached that number by this weekend, so we're going to have a huge community celebration!
Join your hosts +Scott Lewis and +Buddhini Samarasinghe as they start the celebration of being the #1 science community and the #10 community in *all of Google+*!!
During our Hangout On Air, you'll get a chance to meet the moderators who dedicate so much time and energy into making sure that good, high quality science content is showcased in the community.
After we hear from the moderators on *who* they are, we'll have a discussion on what the curator team looks at for community posts to get put on the *Curator's Choice*.
We are all extremely excited to be celebrating with all 200,000 of you! Let's stay curious and find new and better ways to understand this amazing Universe we all live in!
#ScienceSunday #STEM #ScienceEveryday #SoGp200k

*Isaac Newton's Birthday is on Christmas*
Join us in a Newton-inspired holiday physics hangout with rockstar physicist +Henry Reich of +MinutePhysics and +MinuteEarth and brilliant ballerina biologist +Carin Bondar of +National Geographic, +Scientific American and host of Wild Sex, a science show about the strange reproductive habits of the animal kingdom. She knows how the world gets physical. +Veritasium AKA +Derek Muller may pop in. We hear there may even be more special guests so you should probably go ahead and RSVP yes to join the lively conversation. BYOB. Hosted by +Amy Robinson of +Science on Google+ .

For an hour on Friday I'll sit down for a LIVE Hangout on Air with Dennis Woodside, CEO of Motorola! We'll talk *Project Ara, Moto X & G, Android and more!*
When you rsvp, the event is automatically added to your Google Calendar with the correct adjusted time zone. Easy!
Plus if you can't watch live, it'll be recorded and available to replay on YouTube. Subscribe so you don't miss it! http://youtube.com/MKBHD

Join mathematicians Dana Ernst , Sara Del Valle , Vincent Knight , Luis Guzman and Robert Jacobson as they talk with Amy Robinson about their favorite math gifs and ideas and what it's like to be a mathematician. How many numbers are there? Do mathematicians see the world differently? And why is the last panel of this xkcd comic funny? http://xkcd.com/804/
+Dana Ernst is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
+Sara Del Valle is a mathematical epidemiologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, USA.
+Vincent Knight is a LANCS lecturer at the Cardiff University School of Mathematics in Operational Research in Cardiff, Wales, UK.
+Luis Guzman is a graduate student in mathematics at the University of West Florida in FL, USA.
+Robert Jacobson is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Roger Williams University in RI, USA.
Hangout hosted by Science on Google+'s +Amy Robinson

To watch on YouTube, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7_BZe6cGoI
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The director, a writer and some actors in the film "Star Trek Into Darkness" will join NASA astronauts as we host a Google+ Hangout On Air from noon to 12:45 p.m. EDT, May 16, about how work aboard the International Space Station is turning science fiction into reality.
Participating in the hangout will be NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, who currently is living and working aboard the space station; astronauts Michael Fincke and Kjell Lindgren at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston; director J.J. Abrams, screenwriter and producer Damon Lindelof; and stars of the film, Chris Pine, Alice Eve and John Cho. The participants will ask questions of each other and take questions from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City (home of the space shuttle Enterprise), the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, and social media followers.
Ask a question prior to or during the event by posting a comment here or on Twitter using the #askNASA hashtag.

Join @116856514788187555924 @101872556668554977081 @105927361891112066497 #ZackTest for the next installment of the #MeetTheTeam Hangout series: #MeetTheBeauties . Six fans will be selected to join the conversation and ask the Beauties questions; comment on this event to tell us why you should be picked or submit questions using #MeetTheBeauties.
Here are instructions:
* Follow us on Google+ & let us know why you should be selected to Meet The Beauties. You can also simply submit questions you would like The Beauties to address during the Hangout on Google+, Facebook or Twitter using #MeetTheBeauties
* Six fans will be chosen for this Hangout. Selected fans will be notified on April 23rd via Google+ and will then be individually invited to Hangout at 5:45pm PST on April 24th. Please be on time!
* Other fans will be able to follow the conversation by tuning in via the USA Rugby YouTube channel
Good luck!

Join +KELLY GRIFFIN, +Jillion Potter, +Andrew Durutalo & #MattHawkinsfor the this installment of the #MeetTheTeam Hangout series: #MeetTheBrawn . Six fans will be selected to ask the interact with The Brawn; comment to tell us why you should be picked or submit questions using #MeetTheBrawn.
Here are instructions
* Follow us on Google+ & let us know why you should be selected to Meet The Brains. You can also simply submit questions you would like The Brains to address during the Hangout on Google+, Facebook or Twitter using #MeetTheBrawn
* Six fans will be chosen for this Hangout. Selected fans will be notified on April 16th via Google+ and will then be individually invited to Hangout at 5:45pm PST on April 17th. Please be on time!
* Other fans will be able to follow the conversation by tuning in via the USA Rugby YouTube channel
Good luck!

This week, Super Bowl winner +Anquan Boldin and fellow NFL superstars Larry Fitzgerald and Roddy White are in Senegal with Oxfam. They're visiting Oxfam programs in action and working side-by-side with Senegalese communities on projects to increase their income and provide for their families.
Anquan, Larry and Roddy want to meet you, their fans, and tell you about the amazing people they’ve met and the important work they’re doing with Oxfam to help people facing extreme poverty.
These players have been pitching in with Oxfam since 2011, and this is Anquan and Larry’s second trip to Africa with Oxfam, following their visit to Ethiopia last spring. This trip is just one of the many ways they contribute to communities off the football field, and we hope you’ll join us to hear how you, too, can help make a difference.
Use the hashtag #TeamOxfam and submit your questions on this event page or on Twitter.

Having trouble watching the event? Try watching directly on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8LI5JiWEfs
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Have you ever asked a question to someone in space? No? Well now’s your chance. In a first for the agency, NASA will host a Google+ Hangout live with the International Space Station on Feb. 22 from 10:30 a.m EST to 11:30 a.m. EST. Google+ Hangouts allow people to chat face-to-face while thousands more can tune in to watch the conversation live on Google+ or YouTube. This unique opportunity will connect you, our fans, with astronauts living and working on the orbiting laboratory 240 miles above the Earth.
During the event, several video questions will be selected and answered by astronauts on the space station and on the ground. Additionally, NASA will ask real-time questions submitted by our followers on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook.
Unique and original questions are more likely to be selected. You can view the Hangout live on the NASA Google+ page or the NASA Television YouTube channel to watch the astronauts answer the questions.
SUBMITTING REAL-TIME QUESTIONS
To ask a real-time question during the event on Google+ or Twitter, please use the hashtag #askAstro. You can also post a comment on a thread on NASA’s Facebook page that will open for questions on the morning of the event.
WATCHING THE GOOGLE+ HANGOUT
To join the hangout, and for updates and opportunities to participate in upcoming hangouts, visit NASA's Google+ page at http://plus.google.com/+NASA.
During the hangout, astronauts Kevin Ford, Chris Hadfield and Tom Marshburn will answer questions and provide insights about life aboard the station. Station crews conduct a variety of science experiments and perform station maintenance during their six-month stay on the outpost. Their life aboard the station in near-weightlessness requires unique approaches to everyday activities such as eating, sleeping and exercising.

That's right, ladies and gentlemen. There will be a Google+ hangout on air from the International Space Station. Learn more here: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/feb/HQ_13-042_ISS_Google_Hangout.html

Join USA Rugby 7s players Bui Baravilala and Carlin Isles in a live Google+ Hangout! First 10 fans to logon to the Google Hangout get to chat with Bui and Carlin. First fan to answer the live trivia question during the Hangout wins a #Houston7s VIP Ticket Prize Pack.
We will also be doing a live Q&A - submit questions for Bui and Carlin by commenting below or posting it with the hashtag #USARugbyHangout here, or on Twitter @USAEaglesRugby.
INSTRUCTIONS:
• Be sure to follow the USA Rugby Google+ page on Google+
• Fans will be invited to Hangout at 6pm > Go to the USA Rugby Google+ page to join the hangout > Click on "Hangout" > Click on "Join"
• First time users may need to download a plug in so be sure to do so prior to the scheduled Hangout time
• Mobile users will need to connect from the Google+ app, which can be downloaded from the iTunes store or Google Play
• Hangouts are limited to 10 participants so we strongly encourage people to connect as a group

Come join Italian Air Force fighter pilot and European Space Agency astronaut @112628950566484266163 and I for a G+ hangout this Friday at 10:30am Central. Let's talk space and Samantha's upcoming mission to the International Space Station as a crew member of Expedition 42! @116214152295449083654

We will be updating and sharing this General Science Page Circle (see http://goo.gl/9muuE) on Tuesday (10/9) at 9:00 PM (EST).
Please add your Science Page to this database (http://goo.gl/WCohT) if you would like to add your page to the circle. Here's the form: http://goo.gl/bfqHa. You do not have to fill out the form if you are already in the database.
Here's the link to the updated Science Page circle, http://goo.gl/aGQPB.

*Google Plus is a Brave New World Now...* Certain Tools (i.e. Circle Level Notifications) have been removed from our toolbox. We had a lively discussion on what and how to post now that things have changed.
_And don't be fooled, they have changed..._
*Watch part 1 above and watch part 2 here: http://goo.gl/N07RN ..*
*@107022061436866576067 & @108210288375340023376 host the discussion...* Join in via comments or make a request here in the Event (and say you are "Going") to get a possible Invite to join in the HOA Filmstrip discussion.
*The HOA video will be streamed live right here when we start - and after the show for your viewing pleasure.*

To celebrate the landing of NASA's Curiosity Rover - the Mars Science Laboratory - we'll be running a special live hangout.
In conjunction with @106911959181067745693. We'll have all your favorite space/astronomy journalists on hand to discuss the mission in depth, and celebrate the landing live, when it happens. Join Fraser Cain, @109036978092446954908, @108952536790629690817 and @102887292457967781591 for this special event.
Over the course of this 4-hour Google+ Hangout on Air, we'll interview members of the Curiosity team live in the hangout, as well as other special guests from the @111419948721791453320 and the @108759765804984663877.
@109479143173251353583 and @107051665537162034944 will be on location at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to interview members of the engineering team, and show you what it's like to be at NASA during this amazing moment.
We'll update this event as we lock down more of the guests and participants. See you there! You can follow the hashtag #marshangout
(this will replace our regular Sunday night @100902337165997768522)

Whether you can be there in person, or you'll be watching from the other side of the world, you are invited to join us for the biggest event of the summer!
We'll be celebrating the spirit of the Games from Cadbury House in London's Hyde Park throughout and bringing you highlights of the atmosphere right here on Google+.
Who's looking forward to it?

This Thursday we’ll be hosting a LIVE Google+ Hangout with reigning 100m, 200m and 4x100m Olympic champion Usain Bolt – and we want YOU to join in the fun. What would you like to ask the fastest man in the world?
Post your questions below with #askbolt then enter your details on this form http://goo.gl/dXGdC and we might be in touch!

Hangout On Air with Usain Bolt the day before The Olympic Opening Ceremony

The winners of Google Science Fair 2012 will be announced on July 23, 2012. This year’s 15 finalists, all 13-18 years of age, join us from seven countries, and their projects explore topics as varied as adapting hydroponic solutions for poor subsistence farmers to developing cell-phone compatible electrocardiograph machines.
This year our winners will win once-in-a-lifetime experiences like a scientific trip to the Galapagos Islands with National Geographic Expeditions, unique scholarships and real-life work opportunities in iconic science centers of excellence like CERN in Switzerland. Who will they be? Watch the awards gala live stream next Monday, July 23 at 7 p.m. PST at http://google.com/sciencefair.

Most reshares: 3

- A link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4kKYr5I2io- A link to the sage worksheet we used: https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/2a31f88b-4244-4bd1-8e3a-3169ff24daac/files/Talk-2015-07-27/talk.sagews- Some photos of everyone :)

Thanks again to +Dima Pasechnik for inviting us. We're all looking forward to being productive again tomorrow :)﻿

Most plusones: 16

1. +Imogen Dunne and I :) 2. Our head of school announcing prizes (one of which was won by Imogen :D)3. +Rob Shone and I (I posted this one earlier)4. Four other members of staff and I who did the procession thing.

It was a nice day and a real pleasure to see the great students from this year's cohort again.

Tomorrow +Zoë Prytherch and I are heading for a week away camping and look forward to completely disconnecting. Please take care of the internet in my absence.﻿

+Geraint Palmer and I have put together this blog post showing how to simulate transitions in a continuous Markov chain. It's akin to randomly sampling when buses are going to turn up and getting on the first one to wherever it goes.

The blog post has some embedded +Sage Mathematical Software System code showing how this all works for a simple 3 state chain.﻿

+Geraint Palmer and I have put together this blog post showing how to simulate transitions in a continuous Markov chain. It's akin to randomly sampling when buses are going to turn up and getting on the first one to wherever it goes.

The blog post has some embedded +Sage Mathematical Software System code showing how this all works for a simple 3 state chain.﻿___

My Nuffield research placement student (https://www.nuffieldresearchplacements.org/) is starting to get out some cool results :) This plot shows the effect of a threshold policy on joining a queue, both simulated and through coding up known theoretic results.

Next steps will involve some novel aspects of this problem :)﻿

My Nuffield research placement student (https://www.nuffieldresearchplacements.org/) is starting to get out some cool results :) This plot shows the effect of a threshold policy on joining a queue, both simulated and through coding up known theoretic results.

- A link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4kKYr5I2io- A link to the sage worksheet we used: https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/2a31f88b-4244-4bd1-8e3a-3169ff24daac/files/Talk-2015-07-27/talk.sagews- Some photos of everyone :)

Thanks again to +Dima Pasechnik for inviting us. We're all looking forward to being productive again tomorrow :)﻿

Computational game theory in +Sage Mathematical Software System

I've written up a quick blog post about our talk today.

It includes:

- A link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4kKYr5I2io- A link to the sage worksheet we used: https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/2a31f88b-4244-4bd1-8e3a-3169ff24daac/files/Talk-2015-07-27/talk.sagews- Some photos of everyone :)

Thanks again to +Dima Pasechnik for inviting us. We're all looking forward to being productive again tomorrow :)﻿___

We've had a great day being shown around Oxford by +Dima Pasechnik, working on +Sage Mathematical Software System and giving a talk that you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4kKYr5I2io&feature=youtu.be

You can see the worksheet we used here: https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/2a31f88b-4244-4bd1-8e3a-3169ff24daac/files/Talk-2015-07-27/talk.sagews

Another day of coding tomorrow!﻿

We've had a great day being shown around Oxford by +Dima Pasechnik, working on +Sage Mathematical Software System and giving a talk that you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4kKYr5I2io&feature=youtu.be

You can see the worksheet we used here: https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/2a31f88b-4244-4bd1-8e3a-3169ff24daac/files/Talk-2015-07-27/talk.sagews

New at CO9s: I made a ridiculously long (21min) video to supplement my flipped learning minicourse coming up at MathFest next month. This is part of the participants' homework for the minicourse (which is itself flipped, of course). It goes through the whole process of how I apply flipped learning design on an example lesson on finding the derivative of a function using the limit definition. ﻿___Must make sure I watch and read this tomorrow... 💤

Thanks to +Sticker Mule for the cool gift (badge) that came with the surprises (bottom right) I'm taking with us for a visit that +Dima Pasechnik has kindly organised at Oxford. +James Campbell, +Hannah lorrimore, +Tobenna P. Igwe and I will be chatting about some of the game theory that is and continues to be implemented in +Sage Mathematical Software System.

Thanks to +Sticker Mule for the cool gift (badge) that came with the surprises (bottom right) I'm taking with us for a visit that +Dima Pasechnik has kindly organised at Oxford. +James Campbell, +Hannah lorrimore, +Tobenna P. Igwe and I will be chatting about some of the game theory that is and continues to be implemented in +Sage Mathematical Software System.

I have had a short pedagogic article accepted for an OR journal. You can see it on this github repo (https://github.com/drvinceknight/Playing-games-a-case-study-in-active-learning/blob/master/paper/paper.pdf). I would like to also put the paper on the arXiv (mainly for visibility) but am not at all versed in doing so. What is the best practice with this?

- Throw in a comment at the top of the paper saying that it's a pre print version?- Just putting it up with no explanation?- Putting it up now as is and then when the journal version is published (I don't believe this will be in print), putting up a modified version point at the published version?

*I do not want to harm the publication in any way, it's a small open access journal doing things the right way.*

I have had a short pedagogic article accepted for an OR journal. You can see it on this github repo (https://github.com/drvinceknight/Playing-games-a-case-study-in-active-learning/blob/master/paper/paper.pdf). I would like to also put the paper on the arXiv (mainly for visibility) but am not at all versed in doing so. What is the best practice with this?

- Throw in a comment at the top of the paper saying that it's a pre print version?- Just putting it up with no explanation?- Putting it up now as is and then when the journal version is published (I don't believe this will be in print), putting up a modified version point at the published version?

*I do not want to harm the publication in any way, it's a small open access journal doing things the right way.*

Note that I also haven't spoken to the publication about this yet, I first want to figure out what I want to do before asking them if that's cool...

+Zoë Prytherch and I are back from a lovely week long camping holiday. Looking forward to getting back to things with 2 more students starting to work with me this Summer. This includes a high school student who will be undertaking a Nuffield Research Placement https://www.nuffieldresearchplacements.org/ (In the school we have 2 of these this year with +Paul Harper having a student starting next week).﻿

+Zoë Prytherch and I are back from a lovely week long camping holiday. Looking forward to getting back to things with 2 more students starting to work with me this Summer. This includes a high school student who will be undertaking a Nuffield Research Placement https://www.nuffieldresearchplacements.org/ (In the school we have 2 of these this year with +Paul Harper having a student starting next week).﻿___

1. +Imogen Dunne and I :) 2. Our head of school announcing prizes (one of which was won by Imogen :D)3. +Rob Shone and I (I posted this one earlier)4. Four other members of staff and I who did the procession thing.

It was a nice day and a real pleasure to see the great students from this year's cohort again.

Tomorrow +Zoë Prytherch and I are heading for a week away camping and look forward to completely disconnecting. Please take care of the internet in my absence.﻿

Here are 4 photos from today's graduation ceremony:

1. +Imogen Dunne and I :) 2. Our head of school announcing prizes (one of which was won by Imogen :D)3. +Rob Shone and I (I posted this one earlier)4. Four other members of staff and I who did the procession thing.

It was a nice day and a real pleasure to see the great students from this year's cohort again.

Tomorrow +Zoë Prytherch and I are heading for a week away camping and look forward to completely disconnecting. Please take care of the internet in my absence.﻿___

Have thrown my slides from today's outreach event here: http://vknight.org/Talks/ (you can find them at the top of that list). I've also thrown the ipython notebook that I used to create some of the graphics and demo the code live here: https://github.com/drvinceknight/Talks/blob/gh-pages/2015-07-09-Playing-games-with-game-theory/Playing-games-with-game-theory.ipynb

I didn't grab a good recording of this today (which is a shame as it was a really fun event) because I didn't check the microphone settings...﻿

Have thrown my slides from today's outreach event here: http://vknight.org/Talks/ (you can find them at the top of that list). I've also thrown the ipython notebook that I used to create some of the graphics and demo the code live here: https://github.com/drvinceknight/Talks/blob/gh-pages/2015-07-09-Playing-games-with-game-theory/Playing-games-with-game-theory.ipynb

I didn't grab a good recording of this today (which is a shame as it was a really fun event) because I didn't check the microphone settings...﻿___

Delighted to have a talk at this year's #pyconuk2015 , entitled Tit for Tat, Evolution, Game Theory and the Python Axelrod Library. We're very excited about this as it'll be great to show more of the python community the awesome axelrod library (https://github.com/Axelrod-Python) that has been built (mainly thanks to awesome people like +Owen Campbell, +Karol Langner, +Marc Harper and many others). As well as showing of the ridiculously cool webapp we'll also hopefully garner interest and get a few more strategies :)

You can find the abstract here: http://www.pyconuk.org/abstracts/#titfortat where you can also see a bunch of other awesome abstracts. +Sarah Mount and everyone on the organising committee are putting together what looks like will be a great conference.﻿

Delighted to have a talk at this year's #pyconuk2015 , entitled Tit for Tat, Evolution, Game Theory and the Python Axelrod Library. We're very excited about this as it'll be great to show more of the python community the awesome axelrod library (https://github.com/Axelrod-Python) that has been built (mainly thanks to awesome people like +Owen Campbell, +Karol Langner, +Marc Harper and many others). As well as showing of the ridiculously cool webapp we'll also hopefully garner interest and get a few more strategies :)

You can find the abstract here: http://www.pyconuk.org/abstracts/#titfortat where you can also see a bunch of other awesome abstracts. +Sarah Mount and everyone on the organising committee are putting together what looks like will be a great conference.﻿___

Very good day for media publicity of our research with several short articles in the press including on the BBC news and some of the team are on BBC Radio 4 PM show tonight (primetime at 5pm)! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qskw﻿

Very good day for media publicity of our research with several short articles in the press including on the BBC news and some of the team are on BBC Radio 4 PM show tonight (primetime at 5pm)! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qskw﻿___

Spent the day pair coding with Hannah. We spent most of today refactoring and trying to figure out the best way to convert the +Sage Mathematical Software System Extensive Form Game class we've been working on with the gambit class. We also tested out the graphics that Hannah wrote with a large 3 player Rock Paper Scissors game (that's the plot - it's a big picture: zoom in!) :)

(Auraya kept us company and was relatively helpful.)

EDIT: Here is an updated version of that big plot (with colors for players and better line between information sets: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2131546/8505022/16b9dcf8-21d4-11e5-9ea6-85257af6d192.png).﻿

Spent the day pair coding with Hannah. We spent most of today refactoring and trying to figure out the best way to convert the +Sage Mathematical Software System Extensive Form Game class we've been working on with the gambit class. We also tested out the graphics that Hannah wrote with a large 3 player Rock Paper Scissors game (that's the plot - it's a big picture: zoom in!) :)

(Auraya kept us company and was relatively helpful.)

EDIT: Here is an updated version of that big plot (with colors for players and better line between information sets: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2131546/8505022/16b9dcf8-21d4-11e5-9ea6-85257af6d192.png).﻿___

+James Campbell and I are revisiting some work we started last Summer. It involves the calculation of the expected wait in tandem queue. I wrote a blog post about that here http://vknight.org/unpeudemath/code/2014/09/19/the-expected-waiting-time-in-a-tandem-queue-with-blocking-using-sage/

and also put together these funky gifs. James is working on recreating them with seaborn for much prettyness.﻿

+James Campbell and I are revisiting some work we started last Summer. It involves the calculation of the expected wait in tandem queue. I wrote a blog post about that here http://vknight.org/unpeudemath/code/2014/09/19/the-expected-waiting-time-in-a-tandem-queue-with-blocking-using-sage/

and also put together these funky gifs. James is working on recreating them with seaborn for much prettyness.﻿___

After some great work by +James Campbell we just pushed to the +Sage Mathematical Software System trac server, some code that allows you to test if a game is degenerate. It's basically an implementation of what we wrote here: http://vknight.org/unpeudemath/code/2015/06/25/on_testing_degeneracy_of_games/﻿

After some great work by +James Campbell we just pushed to the +Sage Mathematical Software System trac server, some code that allows you to test if a game is degenerate. It's basically an implementation of what we wrote here: http://vknight.org/unpeudemath/code/2015/06/25/on_testing_degeneracy_of_games/﻿___

+James Campbell and I are implementing a test for degenerate games in +Sage Mathematical Software System. We needed to convince ourselves that the definition of a degenerate game (which implies a search over continuous strategies) could be written as a search over discrete objects (the supports of these strategies).

We've written that up as a blog post here: http://vknight.org/unpeudemath/code/2015/06/25/on_testing_degeneracy_of_games/

It includes some references about degenerate games etc...

#gametheory ﻿

+James Campbell and I are implementing a test for degenerate games in +Sage Mathematical Software System. We needed to convince ourselves that the definition of a degenerate game (which implies a search over continuous strategies) could be written as a search over discrete objects (the supports of these strategies).

We've written that up as a blog post here: http://vknight.org/unpeudemath/code/2015/06/25/on_testing_degeneracy_of_games/

In the area of OR healthcare modelling, building on our close collaboration with NHS Wales and several local health boards (currently employing a team of 4 research associates). This joint lectureship is an exciting initiative and a great opportunity to build an academic career in healthcare OR research and make a real impact by informing NHS Wales policy.

Lecturer in ORhttp://goo.gl/QVilyS

Open to any field of OR but with a focus on the mathematical underpinnings of the subject.﻿

In the area of OR healthcare modelling, building on our close collaboration with NHS Wales and several local health boards (currently employing a team of 4 research associates). This joint lectureship is an exciting initiative and a great opportunity to build an academic career in healthcare OR research and make a real impact by informing NHS Wales policy.

Lecturer in ORhttp://goo.gl/QVilyS

Open to any field of OR but with a focus on the mathematical underpinnings of the subject.﻿___

"I have been startled both by the robustness and activity of the development of Jupyter, and the relatively little discussion from the R community. [...] There are a few commercial cloud services that host Jupyter notebooks, and the one I like right now is SageMathCloud. The Sage Math project has come a long way on its goals of developing open-source math and collaboration tools, and I see a host of fascinating features on this app, such as course management tools for classroom use, collaborative editing and live video chat alongside a project & file system for managing Jupyter notebooks and Sage Math worksheets, and the ability to open multiple notebooks in different tabs. " -- http://www.r-bloggers.com/interactive-r-notebooks-with-jupyter-and-sagemathcloud/

#jupyter #ipython #sagemath ﻿

"I have been startled both by the robustness and activity of the development of Jupyter, and the relatively little discussion from the R community. [...] There are a few commercial cloud services that host Jupyter notebooks, and the one I like right now is SageMathCloud. The Sage Math project has come a long way on its goals of developing open-source math and collaboration tools, and I see a host of fascinating features on this app, such as course management tools for classroom use, collaborative editing and live video chat alongside a project & file system for managing Jupyter notebooks and Sage Math worksheets, and the ability to open multiple notebooks in different tabs. " -- http://www.r-bloggers.com/interactive-r-notebooks-with-jupyter-and-sagemathcloud/

Just listened to this show after +Laura McLay mentioned it on twitter (I missed this post by the +The Aperiodical). Really looking forward to the next one!

Anna Haensch and Annie Rorem are the hosts of a new podcast, The Other Half. This is the second of two posts based on the first episode, about racism and segregation. In the first part of episode one, we use the Racial Dot Map to get a sense of what race…﻿___Just listened to this show after +Laura McLay mentioned it on twitter (I missed this post by the +The Aperiodical). Really looking forward to the next one!

After a great pull request by +Marc Harper we're now up to 66 strategies :D

+Karol Langner's Meta Hunter is still winning :)

We're working on building a nice list/description of the strategies that have been implemented and some that have not. You can see those from Axelrod's first tournament here: http://axelrod.readthedocs.org/en/latest/overview_of_strategies.html#axelrod-s-first-tournament﻿

After a great pull request by +Marc Harper we're now up to 66 strategies :D

+Karol Langner's Meta Hunter is still winning :)

We're working on building a nice list/description of the strategies that have been implemented and some that have not. You can see those from Axelrod's first tournament here: http://axelrod.readthedocs.org/en/latest/overview_of_strategies.html#axelrod-s-first-tournament﻿___

Really fun morning helping out with the great day that +Paul Harper​ organised for a local high school. It involved them building an engine at the school of engineering, doing some linear programming and cryptography at the school of Mathematics and finally playing with snot at a workshop that my wife +Zoë Prytherch​ ran.

+Geraint Palmer​ really enjoyed getting to wear a lab coat :) ﻿

Really fun morning helping out with the great day that +Paul Harper​ organised for a local high school. It involved them building an engine at the school of engineering, doing some linear programming and cryptography at the school of Mathematics and finally playing with snot at a workshop that my wife +Zoë Prytherch​ ran.

+The SageMathCloud is such a ridiculous tool. One of my undergraduate students who is going to be doing Sage development is a Windows user. Within 3 minutes she was set up with a full unix development environment... So very cool.﻿

+The SageMathCloud is such a ridiculous tool. One of my undergraduate students who is going to be doing Sage development is a Windows user. Within 3 minutes she was set up with a full unix development environment... So very cool.﻿___

This summer I'm working with quite a few students (mainly undergrads but others also). Two of them start tomorrow and I look forward to getting going:

- +James Campbell who worked with me last Summer and will be continuing his work contributing to +Sage Mathematical Software System.- Hannah who just finished her first year and will also be (hopefully!) contributing to Sage :)﻿

This summer I'm working with quite a few students (mainly undergrads but others also). Two of them start tomorrow and I look forward to getting going:

- +James Campbell who worked with me last Summer and will be continuing his work contributing to +Sage Mathematical Software System.- Hannah who just finished her first year and will also be (hopefully!) contributing to Sage :)﻿___

Just finished off a blog post describing the application of natural language processing to the +Edinburgh Festival Fringe jokes. I don't quite have enough data (60 jokes) and I just use the out of the box classifier but this was still fun.

TL;DR I build a classifier that is slightly better than flipping a coin (which when it comes to funny and the lack of data I have is probably not bad) but the simplicity of the python code used to do this is really cool...﻿

Predicting funny

Just finished off a blog post describing the application of natural language processing to the +Edinburgh Festival Fringe jokes. I don't quite have enough data (60 jokes) and I just use the out of the box classifier but this was still fun.

TL;DR I build a classifier that is slightly better than flipping a coin (which when it comes to funny and the lack of data I have is probably not bad) but the simplicity of the python code used to do this is really cool...﻿___

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